AI Shelf Index · 2026 holiday shopping season

McFarlane AI shopping shelf share

🧸 Toys · 🇬🇧 UK · updated 12 Oct 2026

Standing

#24

Toys · UK

#24 #24

Shelf-share

0.7%

of UK answers

0.1% 0.7%

Sentiment

100%

positive

No week-to-week change larger than the variation between readings.

Who's on the toys shelf

1 LEGO
17.3%
2 Connetix Tiles
10.7%
3 POP MART
6.9%
4 Magna-Tiles
5.5%
5 Yoto
5.5%
6 Tonies
5.3%
⋯
24 McFarlane
0.7%

The shoppers McFarlane wins

The same answers, sliced by the shopper the question implies — where McFarlane ranks best.

Where McFarlane wins the journey

Its rank at each phase of the shopping journey — from first awareness to the moment of purchase.

Awareness

—

not surfaced

Research

#16

1.8%

Comparison

—

not surfaced

Validation

—

not surfaced

Purchase

—

not surfaced

Where the engines differ

ChatGPT
0.0%
Google AI Mode
0.7%

What AI says about McFarlane

Observed from the answers themselves — not a score.

Sentiment

100% positive · no negative mentions

Price framing

framed mid

100% mid

“McFarlane DC Multiverse — best for DC - Excellent if your shelf is going to be Batman/DC-heavy.”

ChatGPT

Products AI names

The specific McFarlane items the engines put in front of UK shoppers.

  • DC Multiverse Supergirl (Theatrical/Movie Edition) 0.2%
  • DC Multiverse / Page Punchers 0.1%

Shelved alongside

Brands the engines recommend in the same answers as McFarlane.

MAFEX

Masters of the Universe

Star Wars Black Series

How to read this

Bar is how often that brand is recommended in the same answer as McFarlane, relative to the rest.

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Holiday Shopping 2026 · reading updated 11 Oct. An independent measurement by Slingso; not affiliated with McFarlane.